Please do not legislate a hunting season for the Ontario cormorant. Please do not make this bird a game bird. It has been near extinction in the past and has only recently come back as a healthy native species. We need to protect this wonderful aquatic bird.
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I strongly agree with this proposal to have a hunting season on cormorants as they have impacted the fishing in our area a lot. The fishing has depleted majorly in the recent years, and I see a lot of cormorants.
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Per the proposal: "There continues to be concerns expressed by some groups (commercial fishing industry, property owners) and individuals that cormorants have been detrimental to fish populations, island forest habitats, other species and aesthetics."
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I have seen these birds completely iradicate our gravel pit at home. Removal all fish from our gravel pits and cause major damage at our northern hunt camp lakes to the fish population on the inland lakes.
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I hope I'm not too late to express my opposition to the plan to change the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act in order to allow individuals to kill up to 50 cormorants per day.
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I’m in full support of this as a Great Lakes fisherman. As a local hunter will definitely take part in this to ensure bait fish numbers stay up and to hopefully prevent any more problems his birds cause.
Please make this hunt happen to control the pit of control numbers of these birds
I opposes the proposal for the following reasons:
It lacks any supporting scientific evidence, lacks any clear objectives, poses a risk to co-nesting species, and potentially places water-based recreationalists at risk.
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My husband and I are very troubled by this proposal. Why do humans feel they have to 'manage' everything in life and nature. It has already been stated that cormorant populations were previously in decline, rebounded and are now declining somewhat again.
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Species of all kinds often go through periods where they decline in numbers. There is no one factor or cause that can cause any one species or type of fish decline in numbers.
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Cormorants are a native species to the region, predating humans by millennia. They have a right to be here, and their numbers have only recently returned to a healthy range in the wake of negative impacts from direct and indirect human intervention (hunting and pollution).
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I am against the proposals to enable the hunting of comorants. There is no scientific proof they are damaging the environment. The young require two parents to look after them. How is Tis going to be monitored? I request that this proposal does not go through.
Please do NOT permit the hunting/slaughter of the double-crested cormorants in Ontario. These birds should be protected, not subjected to being shot and killed. Thank you.
I think the cormorant hunting proposal is a terrible thing.
Just because something is flourishing now you want to wipe them out? It seems like if even one person kills 50 every day for so many months it won't take long for all the cormorants to be gone.
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While I understand the desire to have a hunting season for the cormorants I don't understand how the 50 birds/day is a rational amount? Also, do people eat cormorants? Use the feathers/carcasses for anything at all?
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I urge the governing body to reconsider their permission to allow this senseless slaughter and to encourage the public to be entertained by the beauty and wonder of nature and not in its decimation.
Hi, I'm submitting my concern for the proposal of the culling of Double-crested Cormorants. It's saddening to see that this proposal has been done without any scientific evidence backing any of the claims or solutions to the problems listed.
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